Combination tool



Nov. 22, 1927. 1,650,493

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COMBINATION TOOL.

Applieation filed October 19, 1925. Serial means.

This invention relates to a combination which is of simpleand durable construction,"

reliable and effective in operation, and easy and comparatively inexpensive to manufao ture.

Other objects and advantages reside in certain novel features of the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts which will. be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and 1n Wl11ChI- Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing one embodiment of the invention,

Fig. 2 is a view thereof in side elevation, Fig. 3 is a plan View, and Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2. j j c Referring to the, drawings it will be seen that the tool embodying the present invention provides a pair of closed handles, designated at 1 and 2, the handle 2 having a laterally offset portion 3 adapted toengage the handle 1 when the handles are brought together. The forward ends of the handles are pivotally connected to each other by means of a pivot bolt and nut 4,, and on the opposite side from the pivot bolt from the handles 1 and 2 working heads, designated at 5 and 6 are provided. The working head 5 has a serrated impact face 7 which may be used as a steak pounder when thehandles 1 and 2 are brought together. At such time the working head 6 engages theworking head 5 so that a heavier hammer head is provided. As the handles 1 and 2 are engaged with each other due to the projection of the lateral offset-3 the hand-lesl 2 readily adapt the tool for use as a hammer .puller. formed to provide the tip or bit of a screwfaces apart.

and permit the tool to be swung with facility in the same manner thata hammer 1s swung. The working heads 5 and 6 have co-operable jaw faces 8 and 9 which enable the device to be used as a pair of pliers. The working head 6 is also shaped to provide a tongue engageable with the socket of a stove lid whereby the device may be used as a, stovelid lifter. j The heads 5 and 6 are also provided with co-acting cutting edges 10 and 11, the cutting edge 11 being of V-shaped form. These cutting edges 10 and 11 enable the tool to be used as a wire cutter.

The rear portion of the working head 6 has integrally formed therewith at the throat thereof a rectangular socket member 12 7 designed to engage the operating bar'of the grate to enable the tool to be used as a shaker for grates and which by being so disposed is out of the way when the tool is used for other purposes as well as increasing the compactness of the tool. The rear end of the handle 1 is provided with V-shaped notch 15 which enables the tool. to be used as a tack The handle 2 has its rear end driver, as indicated at 16. The shank of the screw-driver is provided by the handle 2. It is to be noted that the handle 1 is curved which facilitates the application of leverage to the tack to be pulled.

The working head 6 due to the curved formation of'its jaw face 9 is also adapted to co-act with the jaw face 8 of the working head .5 to lift ordinary pans or otherutensils.

A novel form of spring means is provided for' normally spacing the jaw faces or the working heads apart. This spring means includes an expanding coil spring 20 which is accommodated 1n complementary recesses 21 and 22 provided in the hub portionsof vthe handles land 2 adjacent the pivot thereof., The recesses 21 and 22 incline obliquely across the handles and this inclination enables the spring 2Oto yieldably urge the aw A tool comprising a .pair of elongated 1 members each having a bar-like intermediate portion, the side faces of said. portions abatting each other and the members being 'p'i'v} a jotally connected adjacent the forward ends pact handle, each member terminatin at its of said bar-like portions and having flat opforward end in a jaw, said flat faces aving posed faces, and one of the members having complementary obliquely disposed recesses an elongatedrear end portion of increased at a point adjacent the pivot connection 5 width upon which the similar portion of the' therefor, and a coil pring in said recesses other member is adapted to engage when the adapted for pressing the jaws apart.

same are brought together and form a com- CLAUD W. COBUR-N. 

